The area of cognitive or intelligent robotics is moving from the single robot control and behavior problem to that of controlling multiple robots operating together and even collaborating in dynamic and unstructured environments. This paper introduces the topic and provides a general overview of the current state of the field of modular and multi robotics taking both of these subareas as differ...

The paper presents an intelligent wind turbine control system based on models integrating the following three approaches: data mining, model predictive control, and evolutionary computation. To enhance the control strategy of the intelligent system, a multi-objective model is proposed. The model involves five different objectives with different weights controlling the wind turbine performance. ...

This paper presents a novel approach to traffic management by coordinating driver behaviors. Current traffic management systems do not consider lane organization of the cars and only affect traffic flows by controlling traffic signals or ramp meters. However, drivers should be able to increase traffic throughput and more consistently maintain desired speeds by selecting lanes intelhgently. We p...

Nowadays, one of the problems of human life is popula- tion congestion and the lack of ability to meet their needs. One of the important infrastructures affected by this issue is the transportation infrastructure. Moreover, increasing transportation facilities through conventional methods, due to the need for macro investment and much time, cannot be nowadays considered as a proper and practi- ...

The forecast of fluctuations and prices is the major concern in financial markets. Thus, developing an accurate and robust forecasting decision model is critically favorable to the investors. As gold has shown a special capability to smooth inflation fluctuations, governors use gold as a price controlling lever. Thus, more information about future gold price trends will help to make the firm de...

Systems are becoming more and more complex. The properties of distribution are more and more important in systems for their identification, description, management, controlling, maintenance, knowledge, and intelligence. Applications of Distributed Intelligent Systems are emerging in more and more fields of industry. A distributed system is composed of many computers and devices interconnected w...

The authors present the design of precedence based bandwidth management and pricing extensions to proxy server software for controlling Internet communication in an intelligent and adaptive manner. Proportional fairness and congestion avoidance disciplines are examined as flow control mechanism. The proposed proxy server is designed to preemptively alleviate Internet congestion.

In recent years, workflow technology has been widely used in business process management. With the increased complexity, uncertainty and risks in business operations, workflow monitoring is gaining growing attention in business process controlling and supervision. However, monitoring functions provided in traditional workflow systems lack flexibility, and provide little support for managing com...

This paper presents an interactive finned-tube evaporator and condenser design program, EVAP-COND (ver. 3), which incorporates a computational intelligence module, ISHED (Intelligent System for Heat Exchanger Design), for optimization of refrigerant circuitry. This paper presents ISHED’s design, its function, the parameters controlling an optimization run, selected examples of ISHED experimenta...

A ZigBee-Based Intelligent Household Electricity Monitoring and Control Information System (ZBEMCIS) is proposed. The system is composed of hardware and software. The hardware consists of sensors, a ZigBee-based gateway, and a client, while the system software is divided into three layers: the data service layer, the logic layer and the user layer. The sensors collect the data from electric equ...